Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
A Note on the Text ix
List of Illustrations xi
Introduction xiii
The Text of Strange Case of Dr. Jehyll Mr. Hyde 1
Notes on the Manuscript 61
Contexts 73
Composition 75
Graham Balfour • [Writing the Tale] 75
Robert Louis Stevenson • [The Use of Dreams] 77
[My Other Self] 84
Correspondence and Reception Robert Louis Stevenson 87
To Sidney Colvin, late September/early October 1885 87
To Charles Longman, c. November 1, 1885 88
To Will H. Low, December 26, 1885 88
To Katharine de Mattos, January 1, 1886 89
To Edward Purcell, February 27, 1886 90
John Addington Symonds • To Robert Louis Stevenson, March 3, 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson 90
To John Addington Symonds, early March 1886 92
To John Paul Bocock, c, mid-November 1887 93
"I am, Yours, RLS": A Stevenson Signature 94
Henry James • [A Wide Margin for the Wonderful] 94
Historical and Cultural Contexts 97
Judith R. Walkowitz • ["Dreadfully Delightful City"] 97
John Addington Symonds • [Passion for the Male Sex] 103
Criticism 113
Elaine Showalter • Dr. Jekylt's Closet 115
Jack Halberstam • Parasites and Perverts:
An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity 126
Martin Danahay • Dr. Jekyil's Two Bodies 135
Stephen D. Arata • The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde 147
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Chronology 159
Selected Bibliography 167